Payne later expanded on his initial statement.

【expand】佩恩后来对他最初的声明作了进一步说明。

His initial statement contradicted the timeline from the coroner's report.

他最初的口供和验尸报告所给出的时间相矛盾。

But the resolution was a dilution of the initial ministerial statement. Over 8 million tons of plastics enter the oceans each year.

但这次决议比一开始的部长级声明力度减弱了。每年进入海洋的塑料有800万吨。

But if that was true, then they had a common factor of two, which contradicted the initial statement, and that's how Hippasus concluded that no such ratio exists.

但如果这是正确的话 p和q就有一个共同的因子2和最初的题设矛盾，至此，希帕索斯得以证明这样的比例是不存在的。